Highlands Hammock State Park is one of the earliest examples of a grass-roots campaign to support the environment. Local citizens acquired the property here and agreed to protect it even before the Florida state park system was established in…
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I’d guess that every 8 times of out 10 years, Doug requests a family bike ride for his birthday and this year was no exception. We rode the The Spanish Moss Trail, a rail to trail near Beaufort (pronounced…
Milbridge is on the northeastern coast of Maine and about an hour away from Acadia National Park. We had the tiny campground of McClellen Park and its rocky shoreline to ourselves the night before we entered Bar Harbor and Acadia…
From Montreal (post here) we followed the Saint Laurent River north to reach Quebec City. Quebec City is not quite as bike friendly as Montreal, but it is still bike friendly and is also very walkable given its size…
From NY’s Finger Lakes we had two weeks in the Adirondacks before needing to be in Plattsburg NY. There are so many lakes and places to visit that it would be tough for me to say “you must do…
Sometime old movies or television shows reference honeymooning in Niagara Falls, which always seemed weird to me. I’d also heard that a lot of people travel to the US just to see it. Again, seemed weird…that is, until we…
From the Zippo Museum in Bradford PA (post here) we drove north through Great Valley to Four Mile Creek State Park to camp. The next day we’d planned a bike ride to Fort Niagara State Park, but it was…
If you don’t know anything about Valley Forge, the short version is that shortages in food, a cold winter, lack of hygiene, and poor medical knowledge created a bonafide military clusterfuck for the Continental Army who managed to later…
You may recall from high school history lessons something about Harper’s Ferry in relation to the Civil War and you would be right! Harper’s Ferry West Virginia has an interesting history and Harper’s Ferry National Historic Park brings that…
It’s always great when you can get away for longer, but in just 2-3 days it’s possible to get a feel for Asheville’s culture and experience what makes this city so special. DAY 1: BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY Getting to…
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